Re: domain literals

Frank Ellermann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spf.devel
Organization <URL:http://purl.net/xyzzy>
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Scott Kitterman wrote:
 
> Given that at the beginning of the process (in the paragraph I cited a few
> messages back) the SPF result for a non-FQDN is None, I think that don't
> match is the only result that's consistent with that.

That's not directly related.  Of course the result for "HELO museum"
is NONE because "nslookup -q=txt museum." doesn't find an SPF policy.

I think... checking... yes, no policy => NONE.

But for a:%{h} you'd ask for q=a (or q=aaaa), not q=txt (or q=spf),
and they really have an IP.  How good that idea is is a separate
question, they (ab)use it for a wildcard.

But "museum" isn't the only TLD with an IP.  There might be even a 
TLD with an SPF policy... <shudder />

SPF policies can't talk about such domains _directly_ because they
don't have the reqired dot before a <toplabel>.  But that doesn't
affect indirect references like "a:%{h}", "mx:%{d}", or "ptr:%{o}".

Frank


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